From:	khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu (Mumit Khan)
Subject:	Re: converting between UNC and NT files names?
11 Dec 1997 13:57:43 -0800 :
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On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Kevin Hughes wrote:

> Is there any easy way of converting between the unc used by the gnu tools for file names and the standard
> NT file names? I would like to call native NT tools directly from shell scripts but all the file names I have
> in variables etc. are in UNC format and the tools only understand the standard names.
> 

The attached piece of code may help you get started. Simply run it with
the posix filename(s) on the command line and it'll spit out both relative
and absolute win32 pathnames.

   % posix2win32path . //server/src
   . --> c:\tmp (.)
   //server/src --> \\server\src (\\server\src)

Regards, 
Mumit -- khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu
http://www.xraylith.wisc.edu/~khan/


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